Cem Anos de Solidão e Viver para Contar, de Gabriel García Márquez: expressões de identidade sociocultural latinoamericana

Our work investigates post-colonialism categories in the works One Hundred Years of Solitude and Live to Count. The pillars of our search are fictional and biographical images constituents of the works in question. Such references are focused as expressions sociocultural aspects of the Latin American people. Our interest in the work One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is related to the fact that this literary production represents strong elements of contemporary Latin American context. Likewise, we realize that the author, in the literary manifestation of signs of Latinity, makes use of elements consistent with the acculturation to which the Latin American people submitted, as we can see in their biographical work Living to Tell. In Viver para Contar, the experience report reveals that the Latin American singularity is focused on the interface with the European or North American “other”. From these two paradigms emerges the allegorical figure of the neo-colonizer represented by the different dynamics of capital oppression, highlighting the different ways in which singularities were glimpsed in the world and from which they began to interact and metamorphose reciprocally. Finally, it is seen that these connections, among other things, bring out the profile of Latin Americans that we believe to have and/or to be, thus composing a literary iconography1 of the Latin America